hopscotch
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hopscotch
- /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ US
- /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/ UK
Where it comes from
From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
noun
- A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
verb hopscotches · hopscotching · hopscotched
- To move by hopping. As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
- To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping. Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
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noun child's game
| Español | avión, rayuela, bebelechi, luche, peregrina, infernáculo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 사방치기 sabangchigi |
| 日本語 | 石蹴り ishikeri |
| 中文 | 跳房子 tiàofángzi, 跳格子 tiàogézi |
| हिन्दी | हेपस्काच hepaskāc |
| Português | amarelinha, macaca |
| Français | marelle |
| Deutsch | Hickelkasten, Hüpfspiel, Paradiesspiel, Himmel und Hölle, Tempelhüpfen, Hinkelspiel |
| Italiano | campana |
| Ελληνικά | κουτσό koutsó |
| Română | șotron |
| Русский | кла́ссики klássiki |
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@misc{hopscotch_2026,
title = {hopscotch},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hopscotch},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
